Passware Kit 12.3 recovers passwords for Facebook, Gmail, and other websites by analyzing a memory image or a system hibernation file. Here is how it’s done. Launch Google Chrome browser on a target machine and open a new Incognito window (Ctrl+Shift+N). In Incognito mode Chrome does not save your passwords, but still they are present in […]

NEW IN PASSWARE KIT 12.3 Extraction of Facebook, Google, and other websites’ passwords from live memory or hibernation files Hardware acceleration: the latest ATI cards (AMD Radeon 7 series) supported Distributed password recovery now with custom dictionaries Portable rainbow tables for instant offline decryption of Word and Excel files up to v.2003 now for sale […]

Windows stores account passwords for all the logged-in users in memory. This holds true for Windows XP through Windows 8. Passwords are encrypted and are not visible in plain text, but there is still a way to identify and decrypt those passwords. When a computer hibernates, Windows writes all the physical RAM memory contents to […]

Improving password recovery success rates Limited time and resources are usually the two biggest constraints for password recovery. A live memory image could contain encryption keys and passwords, but what are the options if there is no such image available? There are two important metrics for measuring effectiveness of password recovery: success rate and time […]